Movie Musicals
Malfunction
Head for the Light
Doing Movies & TV
Animal Words & Phrases
100

At a midnight screening of this film, people often do the "Time Warp" in the aisles

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

100

An oxygen tank explosion on this mission in 1970 led to some tense days before the crew managed to get back to earth

Apollo 13

100

Starlight is said to do this, from the Old English for "blink"

twinkle

100

This Welshman played a serial killer on film & a man who built robots that killed people on "Westworld"

Hopkins

100

If you seem smug, you look like "the cat that ate" this bird

a canary

200

He & Ginger Rogers danced "Cheek To Cheek" in "Top Hat"

Fred Astaire

200

The Patriots beat the Panthers, but her "wardrobe malfunction" at Super Bowl XXXVIII is what most people remember

Janet Jackson

200

The Brits use this word to mean a flashlight; to us, it's a stick that's been set aflame

a torch

200

This actor has been seen in a "Jeopardy!" audience at least twice--in "White Men Can't Jump" & watching Cliff on "Cheers"

(Woody) Harrelson


200

To make a big deal out of something minor is to make a mountain out of this

a molehill

300

Ewan McGregor played a love-struck poet in this musical set in Paris

Moulin Rouge!

300

After one group of scientists used kilograms & another used pounds, a probe sent to this planet in 1998 was lost in orbit

Mars

300

If a light is barely visible, it's this adjective, also a verb meaning to swoon

faint

300

He won an Emmy guest starring on "Friends" in 2000, the year he was "Unbreakable" as David Dunn

Bruce Willis

300

It's an umbrella-shaped mushroom

a toadstool

400

"Toot Sweets" & "Truly Scrumptious" were 2 of the tunes in this 1960s musical about a magical flying car

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

400

In 1979 an automatic valve at this Pennsylvania facility failed to close, leading to damage to the core

Three Mile Island


400

It sounds like an overflowing of water from a river, but it's a light that covers a large area

a floodlight

400

A "Bombshell" as Gretchen Carlson, she hit the smaller screen as Grace Fraser in "The Undoing"

Nicole Kidman

400

Exhibiting fake sorrow is this reptilian phrase

crocodile tears

500

Shirley MacLaine sang "If My Friends Could See Me Now" in this musical

Sweet Charity

500

This engineer's L.A. Aqueduct worked fine, but his St. Francis Dam north of the city collapsed in 1928, flooding Ventura County

William Muholland

500

This unit of light intensity is abbreviated FC

foot-candle

500

Her real-life roles include Marcia Clark on "American Crime Story" & Tony Bradlee in "The Post"

Sarah Paulson

500

This object that the Israelites worshipped at Mount Sinai now signifies crass materialism

the golden calf

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